Posted on 08/28/2012 2:32:44 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Court Rules Israel Wasn’t at Fault in U.S. Activist’s Death By DANIELLE ZIRI and JODI RUDOREN
HAIFA, Israel — An Israeli judge ruled on Tuesday that the state bore no responsibility for the death of Rachel Corrie, the young American woman who was run over by a military bulldozer in 2003 as she protested housing demolitions in the Gaza Strip.
The lengthy verdict in the civil case, read to a courtroom packed with supporters of Ms. Corrie’s family here, called the death an accident that occurred during “a military activity meant to prevent terrorist activity.”
“She chose to put herself in danger,” said the judge, Oded Gershon. “She could have easily distanced herself from the danger like any reasonable person would.”
Since her death, Ms. Corrie has become an international symbol of the Palestinian resistance. A play based on her writings has been performed in 10 countries, and a ship in an aid flotilla to Gaza bore her name. Numerous books and documentaries have told of how Ms. Corrie, a 23-year-old student, stood in an orange vest with a bullhorn between a bulldozer and the home of a Palestinian family in March 2003 during the height of the second intifada, or uprising.
A lawyer representing the state said after the hearing on Tuesday that the driver of the bulldozer did not see Ms. Corrie, and could not have.
But at a news conference after the verdict, the Corrie family’s lawyer, Hussein Abu Hussein, showed pictures of Ms. Corrie taken that day in 2003, pointing out her bright garb that he said “anyone could have seen.”
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I’m still having trouble with the “...she was symbol of Palestinian Resistance...”
Yeah... she had that whole middle eastern burka oppressed female thing going on...sure...
” Yeah... she had that whole middle eastern burka oppressed female thing going on...sure...”
And there are thousands of young, leftist, pro Palistinian freakazoids just like her. I have no sympathy for those who promote evil.
“..I have no sympathy for those who promote evil....”
Yeah, my compassion meter is pretty much flatlined for those folks as well.
I don’t even see them as my countrymen...
Those who promote terrorists would, given a chance, promote it here as well.
They already are, brother...
See OWS and the Black Flag anarchists.
And they have “friends in high places”, so to speak, letting them get away with it.
YEP
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